skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Von der Leyen was not appointed by bureaucrats.

It's not clear who specifically did the ceremonial nomination, but it was probably the CDU bureaucracy that made the decision.
Let me thank you for your contribution.

I have spent the last year in a new area (sql) and I've written a lot of questions to LLMs, which it gas been able to answer well enough for me to make speedy progress.

I'm a big fan of StackOverflow, and Google, and before that reference books to gather and learn.

Each technology builds on the layer before. Information is disseminated, repackaged, reauthored.

I get that some people feel like their contribution should be the end of the line. Despite perhaps that they got that knowledge from somewhere. Do they credit their college professor when posting on Reddit?

So again, thank you for your contribution. Your willingness to answer questions, and the answers you provided, will exist long after you and I do not.

I tip my hat.
"Rubber ducking" shows you don't always need the other person either.

Something about compressing our ideas into language and then unpacking them again lets us re-evaluate facts and goals. Perhaps it even helps recruit facilities and mental subsystems that would otherwise be idle or occupied with something else.
Got it. Wish you the best. Wish you had had a better experience here like I have. Only thing I can surmise is that you ended up in some cities in your list that left a lot to be desired. Denver is the only place on that list I'd ever consider living in. I'm unfamiliar with Fayetteville, AR, so no thoughts there, but I'd never want to live in DC, Chicago or St Louis.

What was your favorite city out of all those and what was your least favorite?

Are you and your wife from the same country? Did you meet in the US or came here together?
link to the original 3000x2254 picture: https://tinyurl.com/25ybcrh4
By assuming "usual embedding" meaning using the default model, which generally is "all-MiniLM-L6-v2", I used MixedBread's embedding model because of this [^1].

You can evaluate how well a model is doing by subjectively going through some search results for papers you have a good grasp on. Another way I look at is to see the 2D "maps" of the embeddings and how well these are segregated, see [^2].

[1]: https://www.mixedbread.ai/blog/binary-mrl
[2]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitanshu7/dumpyard/refs/he...
And yet he supported a coup. He was just too "blind" to see which one. And it's a little far fetched to call an armies call to take over the unstable situation a coup when the current head of the state is incapable to take any action because of a serious illness.
It is similarly the indigenous land of the Palestinians.
> For businesses with <10 servers and half an IT person, the cost difference is practically irrelevant.

If your infrastructure consists of ten t2.micro instances vs ten Raspberry Pis, then sure. In any other case, migrating VM or bare metal workloads from your own hardware straight onto EC2 is one of the most effective ways in the world to incinerate money.

You can do well if you've got a workload well suited to 'native' PaaS services like S3 and Lambda, but EC2 costs a fortune.
Yes, but the UK has evolved a lot since 1973.

In 1973, the UK was much closer to a pure unitary state – there was no Scottish Parliament, no Welsh Parliament; the existing devolution in Northern Ireland (the Parliament of Northern Ireland) had just been abolished the previous year and the attempts to reinstate it in 1974 and 1982 proved to be short-lived failures. By 2016 there was a devolved Scottish Parliament, a devolved Welsh Assembly (designated a Parliament in 2020), and a devolved Northern Ireland assembly.

I think the evolution of devolution (pardon the pun) is a recognition that the UK needed stronger protections for Scottish/Welsh/Northern Irish rights against the English supermajority, and a "double majority" for constitutional-level national referendums would be a step further in that direction.
My vote goes to that sentence being terrible. It's like saying I was at the beach with my family for 12 hours. But we were there for 3 hours and there are 4 of us...
You shouldn’t host your websites on the Tesla.
I don't think it is that clear-cut, though. People who are well-fed, well-rested, free from stress and have good healthcare do tend to be more productive.
This is an insightful and correct comment.

Up front, I am a fervent Zionist, with just a personal musing:

Accumulation of many discussions post 10/7 made me reevaluate how I think, and thus talk about, the greater Israeli political factors.

It's unconvincing when framed in terms of more rabid politicians with little popular support. At the end of the day, people correctly perceive that this isn't a temporary political situation, even when they don't know a Smotrich from a Smeagol.

If they do, it's unconvincing because these people are the government, and hold the levers of power to implement the vision regardless of what percentage of voters back it up specifically. To wit, Ben-Gvir proudly announcing new settlements in Golan Heights.
I will not be surprised if Open AI, Claude, Meta and others use the feedback system to drive corrections. Basically, if we use the API, we may never get the best answer, but it could also be true that all feedback will be applied to future models.
A year or so ago, there was a complaint from the NY Times (IIRC) that by asking about some event, they were able to get back one of their articles almost verbatim--and alleging that this was a copyright violation. This appears to be a similar outcome, where you do get back the verbatim text. That to me is a good reason to do tests like this, although feel free to do it with the WaPo or some other news outlet instead.
The ban hasn't really changed much on the crime side of things. Nicotine vapes were already illegal and they continue to import them through the same channels. The organised crime is primarily tobacco. It's low risk and poorly enforced, and probably very high margins where a pack of Chinese or counterfeit cigarettes is resold for $10 to $20 or so. Vapes and nicotine pouches are part of that too but I would wager tobacco is moved in significantly higher volumes.
A MacBook Pro has lower peak thermal output but proportionally lower performance. For a given task you’d be dissipating somewhat similar heat, the MacBook Pro would just be spreading it out over a longer period of time.

nVidia GPUs actually have similar efficiency, despite all of Apple’s marketing. The difference is they the nVidia GPUs have a much higher ceiling.
Somewhat related, "paternoster" segmented elevators from the 1860s. In a way an escalator is similar, except there are no walls or ceilings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift
US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010
> We’re only testing models up to 4b, as larger ones don’t run well on this Jetson.

According to spec, this model has 4GB 64-bit LPDDR4 (25.6GB/s) memory
I tried to track down the reasoning (I mean you would think a right-leaning pro-business president would support the Metric system), this came up:

https://themetricmaven.com/terminating-metric-with-extreme-p...

He did sign the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 into law. The measure declared that the metric system of measurement to be the preferred measurement system for U.S. trade and commerce.

But he also defunded the US Metric Board.

I suspect he didn't care about metric enough to fight other conservatives over it.
Absolutely, and users can choose custom moderation and block lists to offload the work to someone else.
> Furthermore, under the Amsterdam treaty (effective 1999) the EC gained responsibilities for immigration, visas, asylum, and judicial cooperation in civil law (which were transferred from the non-EC part of the EU), and the EEA was not extended to cover those new areas (although some of them apply to the EEA member states through their independent membership of Schengen).

Exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. So the EEA is a much closer successor to the EEC than the EC, which has a significantly expanded scope, is.
> They were not identical back in the day, but they were broadly the same pro business pro money machines.

I don't know how you think that stopped in the 21st century. They just hid it behind the blatant attack on the growing identity movements.
I think this is the most interesting and telling comment i've read. Inflation destroyed the world economy.
HN don't disappoint with inaccurate citations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746721*

Cicero might beat the Julians (incl. MEZ) by notwinning, as time approaches MMM!

Not separately, vibing that Victorian and Edwardian phases may be separated by labor cost vs ___.. (how gatekeeping becomes the only game in town, so that even the insufferably curious have to try to gatekeep as a form of wisdom, tangping no longer viable as a matter of taste)

*save the subs

RanGPT may turn out to be useful for analysing Cicero's long term odds (provided we accept that we can't find out how it was for him)
No such slider on mine. (https://i.imgur.com/m1tODYK.png)
> want to be part of Denmark and Europe

Are you sure about that? They are working to become an independent country.
Wolfstreet wrote an article on why they don't use Case-Shiller anymore and switched to Zillow data.

https://wolfstreet.com/2024/09/02/why-well-replace-the-case-...
I would be much more likely to install this if it was published in the app store.
I don't see how this "unhoused" term is an effective euphemism relative to "homeless".

"un-" is not any softer than "-less". For instance, it's not any better to be called "ungrateful" than "thankless".

The "home" to "house" change also shows no detectable movement along the euphemistic gradient.

This is just a bunch of woke people deciding to use a different word which has about the same sugar content, purely so that they could then feel superior to those who are not yet using the new word.
Is that index inflation adjusted? The chart looks very similar to the non-inflation adjusted price history for NZ (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QNZN628BIS). The inflation adjusted NZ chart for comparison: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QNZR628BIS . Notice that in the second NZ chart we are back around 2019 prices.
How so?

If you're a Windows shop, Bitlocker has been available to you since 2008.

If you're a Red Hat shop, Clevis + Tang has made this a no brainer since 2014.

If you have lots of money and run your root filesystems via FC or iSCSI from NetApp filers, then NSE has been around for close to 20 years now.
Right. And the former CEO of Google basically explained their operating procedure. You go and steal everything, you break the rules, "then you have your lawyers clean all that up" when you get caught.

https://youtu.be/pvcK9X4XEF8?si=9j2ELkbXxHGoZEnZ&t=1157

> ...if you're a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, which hopefully all of you will be, is if it took off then you'd hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up, right. But if nobody uses your product it doesn't matter that you stole all the content.
I don't think you can really decide whether something is a useful signal or not. I don't and can't assume anything about an individual because they follow Evil McBaddington. But the fun thing about statistics is I that I can assume a great many things about the set of all people who follow Evil McBaddington.

I see this "scale invariant fallacy" all the time with programmers. The forward direction being a thing and that thing in a for loop are equivalent in essence, and the reverse being that a property being true about a set means it's true for its members (can decompose aggregate statements into an equivalent for loop
acting on each member).
This is an interesting comment, because before you mentioned it I did not even consider DIY chip fab was a possibility.

In the context of access to cheap mass production, it would of course be silly to use the DIY product of that professionally.

In the context of "having zero access" to the technology, then the hand-produced products can be better than nothing, especially if the "no access" alternative is heinous or deadly in its own right.

It's kind of a micro-scale version of the larger discussion, perhaps?
Alright, let's take a look at that first link as if it's gospel. AWS charging excessively for inter-AZ networking is:

1. a microeconomic pricing strategy

2. where largely similar goods (AWS with or without substantial inter-AZ bandwidth)

3. are sold at different prices (excessive inter-AZ networking fees) to different buyers

4. based on perceived market segments (most customers don't need (or don't know they need till they're locked in) much inter-AZ bandwidth, but larger, richer corporations likely do)

I'm not trying to blur the lines. On top of any juggling of our favorite sources of definitions, that particular pricing strategy has all the qualitative hallmarks of price discrimination. Everyone still buys AWS, most customers are unaffected by the lack of bulk inter-AZ bandwidth, and AWS can successfully charge much more to those who can afford to pay.
It is a convincing rebuttal.

Same for your water example. At some point, water stops being healthy, without knowing at what point, you can't just ask people to just drink more water, otherwise they may die. In fact people have died for that reason.

At some point, increasing minimum wage will cause unemployment and destroy companies. Maybe we are at that point, or maybe not, without a bound, there is no way to tell.
I had a similar reaction myself -- I'm an escaped fundamentalist and don't personally have the same convictions about stuff like this, but even if it's on a level that amuses me a little, there's something that feels just a bit heretical about it...

Not necessarily in a way where I would judge it though, and I certainly see how that could have use cases. It just feels a little bit like water gun baptisms, conceptually.

One question of a less spiritual nature -- are we strictly talking about recall from within the models themselves? I've never gotten deep enough into this kind of thing to mess with RAG pipelines, but I wonder if direct access to a translation or several would have any impact on its overall effectiveness for this.
RBAR: Row by Agonizing Row (2007)
As someone who works on the other side of this... if you're getting through 10 phone screens and not getting an offer, something is wrong with the way you're interviewing.

You've gotten 10 phone screens, so you can probably double your activity and get to 20. If you're actually going for jobs you're qualified for, 20 screens should net you ~3 offers, if not more.

My suggestion: record yourself on your interviews and have friends review the recording and offer critique. You have blind spots you need to address to achieve the outcomes you want.
> They do something like this, using homomorphic encryption. Whatever they do, there is no doubt they incur serious performance hits.

Right, I've seen similar engineering efforts to target this sort of functionality fail because of the computational cost and resulting latency. I'm curious to read the paper for the tradeoffs they made toward practicality at Apple's scale of users.
It is not a "new product" it is at least five years old product and it contained nicotine from the beginning.

This ridiculous timing always makes me wonder if it is result of lobby or sheer ignorance slash incompetence.
I might suggest that exploiting the commons does not diminish the value or accessibility of the commons. Indeed, it spreads knowledge faster.

Equally I'd suggest that the commons is not free. It has to be paid for by someone. Wikipedia exists by begging for donations. Google sells advertising (as does StackOverflow as job listings) etc.

I mean, the first carpenter who took "common knowledge" and wrote a (paid for) book did the same thing. Knowledge is definitely not free, and it costs money to spread it.

(As an aside, I've been using LLMs for free all year.)

All through history people have exploited the commons. The printing press, books, universities, education, radio, television, through computers, Google, sites like SO. LLMs are just the latest step in a long long line of history.
Good, that is the correct way to format code.

- There are only two strategies and the algorithm to choose between them is trivial for a human to compute. This makes for way better readability, you can reliably predict where the next call/argument is going to be positioned.

- Refactoring becomes easier - moving an argument is now a simple `Line up` editor action.

- Source control diffs become more stable across changes.

...but it's hard to see the benefits on trivially simple examples like the one you presented. Here's a reformatting I did [1] to illustrate this:

Original:

ReturnType<SomeOther<S, TypeConstructor<Nested<S, T, U>, T>>, U, HmmLetsAdd<V, W>>

Reformatted:

ReturnType<
SomeOther<
S,
TypeConstructor<
Nested<S, T, U>,
T,
>,
>,
U,
HmmLetsAdd<V, W>,
>

Vertically verbose, yes, but that hardly matters. The reformatting gave the code visual structure that's made it easy to understand.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40427723
Crisis of Confidence (1979)
But it’s not diverse enough group of humans to be interesting. I don’t want to hear Linux takes all day.

That’s due to barriers to entry and lack of critical mass.
msty.app does this and much more. It’s open source too.
It’s definitely a trade-off.

My team at Stripe was scattered all over, during COVID our company was fully remote, and prior to that I worked remotely on a presidential campaign. All of those were great experiences and, in their own ways, necessarily/understandably remote.

Compared to the early days at Gusto and my own startup, though, in-person has very real benefits that (in my opinion) are worth the challenges in hiring. I don’t know that it will always be true and can’t rule out that we’re wrong.

Having internal users and domain experts there in person makes a huge difference. It’s not impossible to do remotely, and maybe the tradeoff doesn’t make sense forever, but it’s worked well thus far.
I understand the perspective and generally have the same stance. But, a subtlety is that you know that "user425712" (made up) is you, and you can see your contributions being upvoted, quoted, discussed, your overall karma increase, etc.

Given that, as a thought experiment, would you be OK with your answers/comments being attributed to others, or that once you've submitted them, there is no linkage to you at all (e.g. you can't even know what you submitted)? Would it be as satisfying of a process if your contributions are just dissolved into a soup of other data irreversibly?

That doesn't sound like a system I'd be as keen to contribute to. Maybe the ulterior motive is at least being able to find my body of work as a source of personal fulfillment. Where is my work in the various LLMs? I have no idea, and will likely never know.
> I was pointing out correlation. I didn't imply causation. You're reading causation into what I wrote. Loneliness or just general unhappiness is far less prevalent amongst those that lean conservative and very conservative. It's probably something worth investigating to figure out why this correlation exists.

I think this is disingenuous. You also heavily implied that feminism is at the root of many women's issues. You can't then pull it back and say "Oh, I didn't mean that, you just assumed that". So what -did- you mean?

You also blatantly ignore that conservative and very conservative community have a stigma against mental health issues. While someone "investigates" this, they should probably also investigate whether it is actually the case or whether conservatives with mental health issues are more likely to leave them untreated or deny their existence.
To keep people out.
I'll resist the urge to combat some of your specific points and focus on the forest.

I think there's simply a difference between funds going towards foreign policy, and ones that basically deny you autonomy. America is highly individualistic, but that's also just human nature. Many will care more about their groceries increasing by $10 a month than a billion dollars going towards a war somewhere else.

Also helps that America hasn't experienced a war on its soil in almost 80 years now. Or technically 200 years since I don't think Hawaii was ratified yet. The idea barely registers as possible to happen.
This is an extremely unpopular take in today’s world where 99% of what you use is expected to be “free” and subsidized by those with interests thoroughly misaligned with yours.

Nevertheless, it is my strong opinion that offering paid service is the only way to a healthy ecosystem, healthy competition, products that actually benefit the user, and the market that works as the market is supposed to (and that Big Social innovating[0] the subversion of this model is a tradegy with net negative effects on society).

Not offering paid[1] service to customers means ultimately either 1) dying or 2) making someone else your paying customer (e.g., the advertisers being offered the users as the product).[2] That “someone else”, by being the source of revenue, will dictate how the service evolves, and their interests will not be aligned with the users’ except by sheer accident.

In case of services like Bluesky, I doubt API access can be excluded from the equation, since it costs money, and when inevitably abused a lot of it, sadly.

Federation overhead could in theory be subsidized by paying customers, or there could be smart controls such as letting certain servers federate for free if it benefits paying users while charging others an honest fee[3].

Finally, let’s not forget the good old “charge for the app”. Sure, being open means someone can build another, cheaper app, and someone will use it, but believe it or not—that’s normal competition; make your app better, respect your users, turn profit.

Bluesky’s accepting large investment is a signal of not going in this direction, and is therefore worrying.

[0] It could be said that some companies (e.g., Adobe and Microsoft) did something like that earlier, subverting the market via offering a product for free by not seriously chasing pirates. When someone’s choice is between two paid products—instead of free awesome product everyone pirates vs. some mediocre paid product—the competition works much better. However, their core offers were still paid, and crucially those were not social media services that prey on our attention and anxiety.

[1] Before someone mentions the disadvantaged: offering subsidized options to those who need it is not mutually exclusive with a straightforward commercial model.

[2] There’s also 3) becoming another Wikipedia, which happens every so often… Let’s be realistic.

[3] A lot of courage would be required, as I can already hear the “walled garden” outcries.
It’s mind blowing how we went from Adobe Flash to this in just 25 years.